Question

I am working on an application that involves “follow/unfollow” functionality. Users can follow Objects and Objects can have many Users following them. It’s a has_many :through relationship via a Relationships model/controller.

I have the following snippet in the object#show view:

<% if current_user.following?(@object) %>
  <%= render 'unfollow' %>
<% else %>
  <%= render 'follow' %>
<% end %>

When testing various functionalities in a request spec, it shows undefined method 'following?' for nil:NilClass and fails all of the object#show specs.

The following? method is in the User model and looks like this:

def following?(object)
  relationships.find_by_object_id(object.id)
end

The method following? is in the User model (since they are the only ones doing following and unfollowing). I thought you could use methods between objects in Ruby, but perhaps not. If not, how would I go about refactoring this to be able to use that method?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

There is no current_user helper in specs. That’s why you get nil.
You should stab test user into current_user variable